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...average sale price to his 1943 level. Some shirt and suit makers had made high-priced items, because the profit was greater on them. Now, they said, they could not buy fabrics to make low-priced items, thus could not sell their goods to retailers. Their solution: abolish MAP...
...refused. It snapped that few manufacturers were being squeezed by MAP. Those who were stuck, hinted OPA, had gambled on the regulation being lifted-and had lost...
When Red Mike gets excited, the veins invariably stand out on his forehead. Last week his face looked like a relief map of the Balkans. What brought on his near-apoplexy was a proposal by New York's Board of Transportation to sell back to Consolidated Edison, a private utility, three power plants which the city had bought in 1940. Explained the board: the power plants, which serve municipal subways, need such costly repairs that the city could save money by buying power from the utility...
...Burton of the U.S. Naval Observatory (who should have known better) seemed to hope that Diana could be used to map the moon. But Diana's 12° radio beam is 24 times wider than the moon by the time it gets there. Even an enormously narrowed beam would not give more detail than a first-rate telescope. Other astronomers were inclined to sniff at the moon as finished astronomical business...
...interest and shown on this map are the Cambridge Post Office on Brattle Square; also Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, which lies off to the northeast, beyond the Law School...